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| Most Important, Unloved Cable... jinjuku, yes, of course a digital signal is handled completely differently by the sending and receiving device compared to AC power supplies. The analogy is very broadly drawn here. My point is regardless of the type of signal or how the signal is... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... @azbrd I am going to guess that the OP is not using the high quality Ethernet cable to deliver the last few feet of Internet service, but rather to transfer data locally stored on a server to a DAC or some other limited local data transfer.The sam... | |
| Soundstage and explosive dynamics? So @madavid0, you going to go out and buy some $10k or less horn-based speakers after this discussion? | |
| Soundstage and explosive dynamics? Not going to comment on horns here because do not have enough experience beyond PA systems to add any value. I have heard some impressive dynamics and excellent imaging from medium sized tower speakers with cone drivers that can be had for under t... | |
| Need feedback on loudspeakers Good choice! | |
| Picking an amplifier Shalmaeser, I am assuming you are questioning how Tidal could sound similar to Bluray (or 24/196 files)? I will try to clarify. Hi Res material generally sounds better from both multichannel Bluray (HDMI) and Hi Res 2 channel FLAC or AIFF format... | |
| Picking an amplifier Wow auxinput, this was a really interesting description of the differences between 2 and multi-channel inputs via coax and HDMI. I have an Arcam receiver that does really well with either analog inputs or HDMI hires from Bluray. My transport has... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? Yes. One interesting thing about this particular discussion is that the changes I introduced in my digital front end that resulted in the described improvements to soundstage (and in basically every other attribute of sound) were done in effort to... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? Ok, so I noticed with a mid fi HT/2 channel system that putting a blanket over a 55" flat screen noticeably improved 2 channel soundstage for both analog and digital front ends in purpose built room. Soundstage with analog front end clearly better... | |
| Picking an amplifier Shalmaeser, I would try this before dropping big $ on an optical cable. I think the optical converters on both sides usually don't merit the added expense of a fancy optical cable compared with coax cables. This inexpensive cable is all glass an... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... @shadorne it seems you have taken what I have suggested as multiple possible challenges for signals in cables and reduced them to one challenge. I suggest there are many. What if the signal corruption is occurring entirely outside of the piece o... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... Wow. What a disappointment. I came on this thread to see what the OP found RE which Ethernet cables worked best for him and for other's suggestions, and instead I mostly had to scroll through 10 pages of "discussion" on whether I should care.Whi... | |
| Subwoofer advice please I am familiar with both the REL and SVS subs suggested. You can't really lose hear, but for music in your system I would suggest the REL over the SVS because it was designed to operate effectively with your high level out, and is tuned for both m... | |
| External DAC Auralic Vega or Chord Hugo TT | |
| JRiver vs Foobar - which do you prefer and why? Thanks for the input everyone. I have been buying and ripping files in AIFF format vs FLAC since doing some research on Sound quality, including advice from Empirical Audio website, and in order to be have files easily compatible across Mac and P... |